My Car is Clean! And a Funky French.

Today was a crazy day.  It was car cleaning day!

You know that manicure I sported less then 24 hours ago?  The grey one with the nice sparkles?  RUINED!
Since I cant find the Family Guy clip for 'Ruine'd, here's the one for 'Cool Whip', since my boyfriend, brother and I were eating pie at Easter and saying this:

Yeah it's an enunciation thing.  It's all good.

Nitz and I had made arrangements to clean my car today.  It needed a wash, a vacuum, and paint chip touch up.  We chose today because:

* It's easter so people won't be washing their cars.  They will be like, eastering and stuff.
* It's going to rain (no car wash line ups!  Yay!)  Note: it hasnt rained.  I totally win at everything.
* It's Sunday, we were out Good Friday, Saturday Nitz had to work, and this chore was so overdue it was making it pretty darn gross to get in my car. It was so dirty, I was starting to call it brown.  It was so dusty, I swore I saw a tumbleweed fly by my dash.

So we did the pay and spray wash, and vacuumed the interior, and Nitz found a place that sold wipes for car interiors, so we just went to town on the thing.  I forgot to take pics, but it went from a 1 to a 10 (well, as close to a 10 as a PT Cruiser can go) and let me tell you!  It feels a million times better.  My dash isnt a sand dune anymore.  I need to detail the seats, but it feels so much better.  However, it destroyed my nails.  So I did something else.

This is China Glaze Turned up Turquoise, a matte finish polish, with french tips of Ozotic 526.  526 his been discontinued but there are other nifty alternatives out there.  I am not happy with this manicure, but life goes on.  A coat of Poshe smudged everything up on my pinky.  Disaster.  Reminds me of why I hate french tips.  UGH!  Just no.  Imma fix it, I swear.

Yesterday I was at Walmart and bought ground beef for super cheap and made pasta sauce.  I thought I made enough fr supper tonight and lunch tomorrow but Nitz ate a lot of it.  So I am roasting garlic my mom gave me and a sweet potato I found in the crisper for tomorrow's lunch.  I am ALWAYS flattered when Nitz likes my cooking (call me the inner housewife in me eager to impress) but I feel a little strapped for lunch now.  I will know in 15 minutes how it turns out I guess.

I hope you guys had a fabulous easter, and good luck in the week ahead!

Maybelline! Revlon! Shitty Pictures!

I remember one of my earliest encounters with nail polish.

I was in grade 2, and I specifically remember asking my mother for nail polish.  I discovered it in my stocking that Christmas and was beyond thrilled!  There was a pink one and a white one.  I loved the white one the best.

Soon after that I discovered how people didn't 'understand' nail polish too.

I got a grey/black/white striped sweater for school in grade 3.  I loved it so much (I rarely got new clothes) that I coordinated my white nail polish with it.  I didn't understand top coats or base coats  plus I chewed my nails.  I'm pretty sure they looked terrible, but I thought they were kick ass.  I always painted my own nails.  My mother never painted them and I never asked her to.

So I get to school and I sit down and some kid sees my nails and says "Did you paint you nails with white-out?  Or paint or something??"

"No!  It's nail polish!"

"Nail polish is red.  You're lying!"

So I didn't wear it again.  Isn't that sad?  I just stopped wearing it because it wasn't 'right' and I wanted everyone to accept me.  It makes me mad to this day that I stopped wearing it.  I should have just wore it.  Little 7 year old Candy, I loved it and I want you to know that.  I wish I had a time machine to slap that kid in the face.  UGH!

Right now, I'm wearing grey, which you'll see in a minute.

I bought a dotting tool!  Essence sells them!  It's the only type of nail art I can do so I played around with it, and look!!

Uniform dots!!!  All by myself!  HA!  The dots are Color Club "Harp on it", which it's a great, non-fussy holo.  It's works really well and doesn't leave bald spots or dragging and it isn't thin.

The blue is two coats of Maybelline Color Show in "Blue Freeze" which is a blue microglitter with a hint of purple and teal glitter in it as well.  It doesn't have awesome staying power.  I had obvious tip wear in less than a day.  By the time I was at my parents house for Easter (about 5 days after piss-poor application) I was picking it off.

And here's the grey one!  It's Sally Hansen's CSM "Ion", which was fussy.  Three coats.  Unacceptable.  And then I layered one coat of Revlon's "Heavenly" over it.  "Heavenly" kind of reminds me on a smaller-particle'd verision of OPI's "Lights of Emerald City" glitter from their Oz collection, which I don't own so I can only speculate at this pont:

I like this combo a lot.  It photographs like crap.  Come on!  It looks like I have weird nicotine fingers here or something, ew!!.  No happy with the photographs at all.  And yeah I still don't have a lightbox.  One of my coworkers is Maddy from Spilled Polish.  I'll ask her help in finally building a lightbox.  Promise!  Two nail-philes working 10 feet from each other.  I don't know how we get any work done ;)

And now the non nail stuff.

I haven't been on here a lot, and for that I am truly sorry.  Whenever I blog, I'm all like "Wow this is fun!  Why don't I do this more??"  It's like seeing a friend you haven't seen in a while!

I've been travelling to other cities for my job a few days out of the month, and Nitz's family is putting Nana's house up for sale, so I was over there for a bit.  My cuticles were a battered mess for a while.

I bought Dante a new perch.  The old one was getting ratty and tattered.  I am planning to film a small video with him and have it up soon.

And now for a bit of heavier news.

Nitz and I have been through a lot.  Seven years of a lot, to be exact.  And a couple weeks ago, we had a chat.  Nitz is no longer my boyfriend.  It was shocking and startling and sudden, but he asked me to become his wife.  You kind of have this day/event/moment planned out in your head.  I figured when the time came, I would just jauntily say something, maybe even be a bit sarcastic or funny, but no, I just did the stupid teary eyed thing and held my hand up to me face and and said yes.  Blew that moment, Candy.  Nice goin'. It was a private affair at home, on the couch, after a wonderful spring day spent down town. It was a regular day, doing regular things, and that made it even more surprising for me.  It's kind of hard to surprise a snoopy girl like me, especially after 7 years.

At some point lately, Nitz and I were both getting asked with greater frequency when this was all going to go down, even someone asking me why *I* didn't just ask Nitz.  But I figured Nitz wanted to ask (he later confirmed he would handle a female proposal badly), and I am not the type to push him, and why rush things?  We were enjoying our time together.  Honestly, it doesn't feel like 7 years at all.  Just a really great time.  2,744 really good days :)

I had discovered the ring box last September, but I didn't open it, and I didn't say anything, because I figured that was Nitz's moment to share, like I said, and he would choose the time and place.  I didn't want to take that away from him.  I am the snoopiest of the snoops.  Seriously.  As it turns out, I picked out the ring at an impromptu lookie-loo at a jewelry store in 2009.  He said he wished he did it sooner, but he psyched himself out, and that day seemed like a great-a-day as any.  He can be cute in dork-tastic way.  He tells me that a proposal is horrible pressure, and it was very stressful.  That made me feel really bad :(

So now there's planning, but I don't want to bore people with the details, so I won't speak of it much unless something totally interesting pops up.  Like cakes or shoes.

I've already had questions about the 'gaps' a traditional wedding band would leave, and I'll get a custom one, no worries.

So please go out and enjoy this lovely Easter weekend!  My car is getting cleaned tomorrow.  It's seriously nasty.  I should take a picture.  Even I can't believe how disgusting it is!

Snow!

Greetings from Canada!

Biggest.  Snowfall.  Ever.  Well, since 2008.  For serious.  Toronto has not has this amount of snow in 5 years, and the amount was lame, but it still caused a lot of buzz.  I just checked the totals and it says Toronto received 30cms (a foot) so that's significant I suppose.  I used to live in a snowbelt and a foot wasnt a huge deal but Toronto freaks about an inch of snow, so whatever.  On Thursday night when I was driving home it took roughly 2 hours, as the snow started coating everything and slowing everyone down.  Toronto has so many people, that it doesn't handle snow well at all.  It just causes so many accidents and there's a lot of tension and panic and anger.

I was snowed in yesterday.  I worked from home.  I never work from home, but I knew that someone would hit me, and I'd get mad, and I'd kill them, and I'd end up in jail.  My boss understood this, and I tried to help in any way I could.  My coworkers reported back that they basically helped other departments because everyone was short staffed.  It wasn't a typical day.  I was watching the news and a young man said "I like how the world stands still."  It's true, no one went out, so if you stepped outside and looked down the street, it would look like a ghost town.  I should have went outside and got those eerie pics.  Next time.  And there will be a next time.  It's Canada after all.

I park on the street, so I had the foresight to park on a side street.   People space themselves out better on the side street and I knew plows don't go back there ever, so I wouldn't have plow debris, which is awful, heavy, dirty stuff to shovel.  Instead, I had this:

I put  a mustache on my car to hide the license plate number..hahaha.  The arm in the picture is Nitz.  He had some spare time before work to help dig me out a bit.

Here's Nitz looking unimpressed that I am taking his picture.  The sun was in his eyes and he was embarrassed   He thought people were staring.  I was like "People take pics of food in restaurants, what's the big deal?"

I finished shoveling!  Yay!!  This is me headed back inside to report my findings.  My hair is being nutso here.

Just for reference, here's the street with the plow debris:

 The road is clear, sure, but good luck digging out.  I hear on Monday it's supposed to rain, which sucks because if that stuff freezes it's terrible.

Here's something written in the snow I found:

Canadian graffiti.  I can't make this stuff up.

And here's a pic of a street near us:

The sidewalk was too deep so we walked on the road (that is a rut to Nitz's left, not the sidewalk).  And here's another neighboring street:

There wasn't really snow before this, so it was a bit of a shock to be sure.  But the day was so beautiful, I didn't even mind!

A word of advice for automatic transmission motorists.  You get better traction by selecting D2 or D3 on your transmission.  You eat more gas, but your tires don't spin like mad and they grip the road better, especially if you have front wheel drive.  I'm surprised not many people know this, as I woke up this morning hearing a car struggle for a long time with traction. It was embarrassing.  As I was casually shoveling (I LIKE shoveling, actually) I hear the guy explain his predicament.  He was driving an old Pontiac Grand Am.  I didn't get to approach him to tell him because he took off too fast.  I had a feeling he was kind of a douche anyways, and wouldn't take the advice of a girl when it comes to cars.  Oh well...

My coworker taught me how to use glue as a basecoat for glitter polishes, so I'm going to try that today, but I wanted to update you on Toronto because, well, stuff actually happened.

Have a good day, and if you are reading this on the easter seaboard, please, please be careful.  The storm that beat us up is totally headed over there, and it sounds worse than anything we've had.  Just stay in and do your nails.
    

Cork Time!

I'm doing my nails tomorrow (Sorry, Wonder Woman, but it is time for something new) but something cute happened.

Here's Dante playing with a cork.  Nitz opened a bottle of beer and casually handed me the cork.  I like inspecting if it is 'real cork'.  I am not a cork expert, I just like to see.  Don't judge me.  Anyway, I left the cork on the futon, and Dante found it.  Dante loves beer.  Like, a lot.

For anyone wondering, I threw the cork in the garbage the second it was over.  Yes, Nitz is singing.  An apartment nearby was playing Led Zepplin pretty loud and Nitz was singing along in his own weird way.

Wonder Woman Polish! Are You Ready For This??

LOOK!  It's a kitty!!  A cute (blurry) kitty!  It's totally distracting you from me not being on here for months, isn't it?  Like, he's the cutiest-wootiest!!  ...and this pic was on my blog earlier....but lookit!!!

I like have barely painted my nails.  I'm sooo lazy.  Well, not true...sooo busy is more like it.  I would just like to report that the lab inspection went fabulous at the beginning of December, and we wow'ed everyone.  It was a scary, crazy, stressful time, especially for someone like me, who only worked there literally a few months and had everything to prove.  But I worked really really hard, and I helped my coworkers as best as I could, and we did fabulous!  So fabulous, that my 6 month probation ended a month early.  I am a permanent resident at this job, and it's going fab!

And that is why I haven't been on here.  I am on the PC all day.  I get home, and I don't want to blog.  I want to go on Ebay and buy BB cream (bought my first bottle, can't wait to get it!) or watch makeup tutorials on YouTube, or play the new Devil May Cry game.  I just don't want to write, when I have been staring at data all day and writing emails.  It's just....ugh.  I don't feel like I have anything interesting to say.  I feel like I am boring and I have no good stories to tell.  And if I did have a good story, I would mess it up and sound like a tool telling it.

......

......I think my neighbor is playing "Silent Night"  Is he not aware that Christmas was like, over a month ago?  Or something.

Where was I?  Oh yeah, my absence thing and my lame justifying of it.  So I haven't forgotten entirely is what I am trying to say.  In fact, I bought 2 Tony Moly polishes from Korea and they arrived here in TEN DAYS. I shit you not (usually it takes 21 days for stuff to get to Canada).  Tony Moly is a Korean brand that sells various cosmetics.  I got a lip stain and a concealer from them too and all have been just great!

ANNNND the polishes are Wonder Woman themed!  Like, how sweet is that???

Here is my Wonder Woman statue I got from Nitz for Christmas   Is she not spectacular?  I mean, I'm straight and I think her boobs are wonderful!  Im a huge fan of how it looks like her hair is in motion and this statue brand (Kotobukiya).  This brand focuses on putting an anime art style to all sorts of comic book ladies.  Black Cat, Poison Ivy, Super Girl, Catwoman (want that one!!), Storm, Jaina Solo, Black Widow, and Rogue have all been casted, and they all look just stunning.  I should post my Harely Quinn Statue.  She's adorable!

Dat AZZZ!  No seriously, she makes me want to work out.  Not even in a guilty way, but in a way that says a woman can have thighs like that and not look like a gross little stick and be fabulous as all out.  Her legs are perfect.

And here is my Ebay find!

These polishes do not have names...  They just said they were from a Wonder Woman collection (not specified on the bottle though) and they are numbered GS12 (the red one) and GS11 (the blue one)  GS12 is a red jelly with larger hex glitter and gold, silver (just a hint of it) and red fine glitter.  GS11 is a blue jelly with larger blue, teal and sea green hex glitter and blue, silver, teal, and green fine glitter.  These glitters are sheer but are very easy to layer with.  It would take a lot to build up to opacity on these though..

This was one coat of GS12 over 2 coats of OPI Vodka and Caviar.

I'm a new Wonder Woman fan.  I did not grow up with her as my role model (that was Lara Croft, actually) but I have been watching the Justice League and I think she's just awesome.  Loving her hair, if only I could get away with black hair.  Oh well!

Well I'd better go check out online courses.  I really want to take one as part of my job.  I kinda miss school like that, ha!